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It's clear that the government isn't capable of governing
'So why don't they just call an election?', I hear you ask
The answer seems to be that they are clinging on for the final months to channel cash to their mates
A depressing thread about the reality of the UK oligarchy
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Matt Edwards 🟢: The figure £1.6billion is being used to refer to the fiasco linked to the .
But surely this isn't how much the government is paying to hire a single barge?!
Well. It's not.
The reality is worse.
A short 🧵
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home
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Re @DaveKeating Hi Dave
The worst of this is that most of our bulletins in the U.K. *begin* with either Trump or one of his supporters saying the legal cases are a political attack
Why are *journalists* doing this? - even the BBC?
Gorka interviewed on Today programme!

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Very excited about general election campaign in
@sianberry is an amazing politician with just the kind of gutsy, no-nonsense approach that has made @CarolineLucas a national treasure
Join @TheGreenParty and help us get her elected!
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Caroline Lucas: Wow!! An amazing turnout in today to launch the campaign to elect the brilliant @sianberry as the new @TheGreenParty MP for Brighton Pavilion. Never more important to keep strong Green voice in parliament
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Twitter has become so typical of authoritarian products
Nothing works properly
Nobody trusts it
All the quirkiness around the bird tweeting eliminated
Not to mention the awful fascistic branding
So sad

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Tory cuts to aid budget mean deaths of thousands of women in Africa
A quarter of budget now spent illegitimately on housing asylum seekers in UK
Another shameful indictment of this immoral government
More international opprobrium

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-663

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One of many, many ways in which a green life is a happier and healthier life
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Brent Toderian: A global study reveals that Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth, getting 12.8 hours of exercise each week. The key—designing activity into daily life. The average person cycles about 1,098 kilometers per year. HT @Cycling_Embassy
ipsos.com/en/global-views-to-s
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Why is BBC giving Gorka a platform?
His US citizenship is in question because he
‘concealed membership of a far-right anti-Semitic Hungarian organization’
Not legitimate balance
Would they be platforming Lord Haw Haw?
Reith is turning in grave
cardin.senate.gov/press-releas

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Re I live in Stroud and my bike still make me very happy
It’s an electric bike now, but still true

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Those of us who care about the climate are in an information war with the fossil fuel industry
This is a forensic analysis of the weapons they're using
Since this is an existential struggle it would be good to familiarise yourself with them
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Assaad Razzouk: The number of oil trolls on my LinkedIn and Twitter feeds has seen a remarkable increase, some collecting 1,000+ replies
Top 10 Disinformation “Tag Lines” Peddled by Big Oil Trolls (courtesy of Big Oil + politicians, PR firms, lawyers and consultants on payroll)
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'Climate Emergency Too Important to be a Party-Political Battle'
More than half of British people think we should act to reach Net Zero more quickly!
Both Labour and Tory politicians must face down the lobbyists and JUST GET ON WITH IT!
bylinetimes.com/2023/07/26/the

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'in one ear the science is telling us calmly to change now, and fast. But in the other, advertising tells us to carry on living heavily polluting lifestyles and buying high-carbon products'
Time to ban adverts for flights and other high-energy products
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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The real aim of Farage and cronies: watering down EU anti-money laundering legislation
The transparency it demands essential for sanctions on Russia
Again we see Farage-Putin connection
Again we ask why journalists always fall for scam
bloomberg.com/opinion/articles via @opinion

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Re @drmatthewhardy Sorry, Matthew, we tried that and Labour used it as a weapon against us
greenworld.org.uk/article/labo
Plus Labour seemed to do a pretty good job of being divided against themselves
Maybe if they learn to unify and cooperate we might make progress

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It’s not just that travel companies are still flying tourists into this hellhole
It’s also that the advertising of flights for weekend breaks across Europe is still legal
We’re in a climate crisis and we need to act like it
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Alexandros Kottis: Impressionnantes images d’évacuations à Rhodes, où des centaines de personnes sont contraintes de marcher sur les routes pour s’éloigner des feux.
Hors de contrôle, les incendies ravagent l’île grecque depuis trois jours. t.co/VM6LMczmzX
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My iPad is nearly three years old and I seem to have hit some sort of 🍏 built-in obsolescence barrier
Apps won’t update and the iPad won’t run previous versions
Any thoughts on a workaround?

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Re @bertnotbob Will investigate
I try not to keep anything in the Cloud because of the waste of server energy

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